NeuroML Symposium

Celebrating five decades of interactions between neuroscience and machine learning

Saturday, 1st March 2025

Pembroke College, Cambridge

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Registration, welcome and opening remarks

09:00 - 09:15

Session 1 (Auditorium)

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09:20 - 10:00 | Keynote

Peter Dayan, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen

Statistical and network characterizations of behaviour in the international brain lab task

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10:05 - 10:25

Nathaniel Daw, Princeton University

Discovering interpretable models from data

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10:30 - 10:50

Flavia Mancini, University of Cambridge

The neural and computational blueprint for surviving pain

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10:55 - 11:15

Marcelo Mattar, New York University

Meta-learning of human planning strategies

Coffee and Posters (Atrium)

11:20 - 11:35

Session 2 (Auditorium)

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11:40 - 12:00

Neil Houlsby, Anthropic, Zürich

Machine vision and language from pixels alone

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12:05 - 12:25

Ferenc Huszár, Cambridge University

Causal de Finetti theorems: revisiting the foundations of causal identification

Lunch (Servery)

12:30 - 13:30

Coffee and Posters (Atrium)

13:30 - 14:45

Session 3 (Auditorium)

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14:50 - 15:30 | Keynote

Cristina Savin, New York University

Neural substrates for dynamic inference

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15:35 - 15:55

Jonathan Pillow, Princeton University

A Bayesian theory of efficient coding

Tea talk (Atrium)

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16:00 - 16:30

Máté Lengyel, University of Cambridge

Session 4 (Auditorium)

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16:40 - 17:00

Judit Makara, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine

Diverse active properties and roles of hippocampal pyramidal cell dendrites

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17:05 - 17:25

Alessandro Treves, SISSA, Trieste

Place field disorder: an opportunity, perhaps?

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17:30 - 18:10 | Keynote

Daniel Wolpert, Columbia University

The Lengyel collaborations: past, present and future

Posters (Atrium)

18:15 - 19:00

Dinner (Old Library)

19:00 - 22:00